Construction and Industrial Articles
posted on 20 February 2012
I enjoy engaging in clean up operations - even in my career, I've cleaned underground oil tanks. Last one I participated in was a lot of fun. I encouraged a group of us from university to clean up the side of the freeway, which of course stretched for miles. All up there were 10 of us and we managed to clean up 20 miles of the freeway over 2 full days. We started at 6am and finished just before 7pm. Time flew as we were so incredibly busy. Most of the rubbish we found was recyclable so we put it on our trailer to take home with us. We also found a lot of interesting items including a smart phone, a designer purse (empty of course), laptop battery and junk silver. People should not be littering as all of this can contribute to global warming. I want to look after the environment and I wish other people had the same intention. A lot of this garbage produces methane gas if not recycled or disposed of properly. Anyway, we intend to do this all again next month. Sure we will have lots of rubbish to look forward to. |
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posted on 9 February 2012
I have witnessed it all too often in my line of work. We spend hours upon hours running over mundane safety routines and practices trying to drum into you what not to do. New ways need to be created to help us maintain safety and we need to start by giving some credit to common sense. It seems in this day and age we dumb stuff down so much to protect the ignorant that we may cause more accidents with others. I can’t tell you how many safety briefings I have sat in where my co-workers and I stare blankly at past the speaker waiting for it to all end. Of course we need to wear the appropriate ppe workwear, but how much time do we waste going over the same training again and again? Odds are somewhere in that session we may have actually missed something important because we were lulled to a state of daydream. The person who gets hurt because they put their hand in the shredder would have probably gotten hurt that way with or without the 15 minute monologue on why you shouldn’t put your hand in the shredder. We had one girl at work that lost two fingers on 2 different occasions making the same mistake. The training we should have been receiving is how to spot the idiot and remove them from the situation. If we want to make the work place safer get out of the 200 page handbook that is hard to digest and do a few quick walk throughs. Corporate America needs to stop the over exaggeration of the safety situation. |
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